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Manchester’s Greenest Meeting Room?

We are currently in the process of building The Meeting Place; a new sustainable meeting room in Trafford Ecology Park, Manchester which will be available for businesses to hire in 2019.

In this blog we look at a selection of the world’s greenest offices and meeting rooms and consider whether The Meeting Place could soon be established as Manchester’s Greenest Meeting Room…

1. Qihoo 360, China

These impressive orbs are made from sustainable bamboo and strawboard and provide employees with an alternative to meeting rooms; creating innovative areas to work together or alone.

2. The Shaw Conference Centre, Canada

This sustainable conference centre features a range of sustainable meeting rooms but also an indigenous medicine wheel garden on the rooftop, a herb and vegetable garden that is kept by kitchen staff, and a butterfly preservation garden.

3. Pines Calyx, Kent

This beautiful sustainable meeting room (and wedding venue!) was built with reclaimed materials with waste chalk and clay being used for the walls and roof structure.

The Meeting Place is a meeting room designed with sustainability in mind, featuring a locally-sourced wooded timber-frame, solar panels, wastewater toilets and statement tables made from repurposed wood. Its high ceilings, plentiful windows and open plan layout makes for an inspiring meeting room, training session or strategy day but the main attraction is its location. Situated in Trafford Ecology Park, an urban oasis right at the heart of Trafford Park, Manchester this Site of Biological Interest is just a few minutes from Media City and transport links. In between your business meeting relax on our outdoor terrace as you and your delegates make the most of the fresh air and peace and quiet. Recharge your batteries with a walk around our 11 acre woodland, wildflower meadow and accessible lakeside paths. Are you ready to test out what could be Manchester’s greenest meeting room? Express your interest here and we’ll be in touch once The Meeting Place is up and running.